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[liaty]

I'm trying to create a single link to enable/disable xgl.

So far I have two bash scripts.


#!/bin/bash
gnomesu start_xgl

which calls

#!/bin/bash
gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl;killall gdm;gdm

The problem I have I think is that the script itself is being shutdown with gnome session.
It worked once, xgl was enabled, gdm shutdown and then gdm logged into gnome session.

Most of the time though it crashes the x server and a reboot is needed.
Other times it gets to the console but does not restart gdm.

Can anyone see where I am going wrong?
Is there a better way to restart gdm?

[towy71]

you don't say which distro you're using and how you install xgl etc.?
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[nelz]

If you are running the script from an X terminal, it will stop when the X session shuts down.

Try having the first script do

[liaty]

Thanks, got it with.
/etc/init.d/xdm restart in the second script

I can now call start/stop xgl from links on desktop.
Distro is OpenSuse 10.1
For other distros the command could be /etc/init.d/gdm restart